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acquacow··on Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site
Now I just need an ad-free save the doggo from the bees site. =)
acquacow··on CISA tries to contain data leak
Yeah, that was OPM...twice.
acquacow··on What to do with an old iPad
I'm still using an OG Gen1 64GB iPad for movies/etc when traveling. The battery does just fine and easily survives watching a full movie or two.
acquacow··on I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
You should be able to do a 2gig + 4gig stick combo. That's what I have in my 2008 Macbook pro, it runs 6GB just fine.
acquacow··on I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
While the battery is glued down with adhesive, you can just soak it in some 91-99% isopropyl and that adhesive dissolves quite rapidly and the battery can be pulled right out. I had no issues doing this on my 2016.
acquacow··on I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
I just finished completely rebuilding a 2008 and 2010 macbook pro. The older ones are quite serviceable. This round, the speaker surrounds had cracked causing buzzing audio or no audio. I managed to ebay brand new speaker replacements and got them installed. I cleaned everything and re-pasted the CPU/GPU while I was in there as well. They are on El Capitan and High Sierra, but can be patched to be upgraded to Mojave if I wish. Currently running a LTS version of Firefox as my browser.
acquacow··on The long (after)life of some of our old fileserver hardware
I just finally decomm'd some supermicro X9 boards that required me to keep a copy of firefox portable and either use Java 7, or configure out some security settings on java 8, but they weren't that hard to maintain/admin.

Your stuff seems like it's at least a gen newer, and probably really isn't that difficult to admin at the BMC level.

acquacow··on TSAC: Low Bitrate Audio Compression
The design is very human.
acquacow··on Butterflies Full of Wasps Full of Microwasps Are a Science Nightmare (2021)
>Living inside some of these small wasps was another even tinier, rarer parasite, a “hyperparasitoid” wasp known as Mesochorus cf. stigmaticus. It kills the parasitic wasp around the same time as the wasp kills the caterpillar, and emerges 10 days later from the caterpillar’s carcass.

That's so metal...

acquacow··on Meta outage
That hasn't even been updated since Mar 1... Edit, oh, now it has today's date, but still doesn't reflect reality.
acquacow··on Meta outage
Yup, got logged out of everything about 25min ago.
acquacow··on FDA approves first medication to reduce allergic reactions to multiple foods
I wonder if this would work at all for my garlic intolerance.
acquacow··on Samsung expands DIY repair program, adds Galaxy S23 and Fold 5 in US
You can definitely buy the battery only, at least for the S21 Ultra, as I just went through that. https://www.ifixit.com/products/galaxy-s21-ultra-replacement...
acquacow··on Can You Live Code a Church Organ? [video]
Now you just have to write a playbook/role that sings to you as it executes through tasks... Audible feedback during execution would be cool for some things.
acquacow··on Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter
They have been putting features back into it each update though. We finally have the ability to ungroup open task bar entries again/etc.
acquacow··on How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip
That certainly shouldn't be able to happen. The top of panel breaker should pop with a large enough load, and the mains on the street can handle quite a number of homes with supply. There's no way a single in-home unit should/could pop anything at a substation. The component at the substation likely just failed at that time.
acquacow··on NAND Error-correction Code
Well, by definition, naked flash wouldn't be NVMe... so no.
acquacow··on OpenSSH 9.5 released with keystroke timing obfuscation
It's 2023, you shouldn't be using the old rsa keys anyway.
acquacow··on Is this Duplo train track under too much tension?
Since we are discussing Lego strength here, this seems new and relevant to post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l10hJxV4SGo
acquacow··on How the recession doomers got the U.S. economy so wrong
If you swipe a card in their store, they know everything about you...
acquacow··on “The Famous F40” Vector Illustration
Man, Avara was so much fun back in the day for how simple it was...
acquacow··on Flame-Throwing Tractors Kill Weeds [video]
I do this to my garden yearly before planting. Works very well.
acquacow··on AMD and Jedec Are Collaborating on DDR5 MRDIMMs at 17,600 MT/S
IOPS are not throughput at all... throughput can't even be calculated until you factor in the size of the I/O request.

You can have 1M IOPS at 5MB/sec if your blocks of data are small enough, like 8k... vs 100k IOPS/sec at 1GB/sec throughput with 1MB request sizes...

In this case 100k IOPS are getting you more throughput than your 1M IOPS.

acquacow··on Legacy Update: Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 2003, 2000
Well, it's ubuntu in a Hyper-V VM. It's a very real linux, and it runs /in/ windows vs on top of it...
acquacow··on Redfin cuts 13% of staff, shuts down home-flipping business
> SF...good deal..

There are no good deals in SF, those are probably the worst deals you can find in the country at any point in time.

acquacow··on Efficient IO in Linux with io_uring [pdf] (2019)
Jens Axboe has been working on this for a long time. I'll stand behind anything he works on =)
acquacow··on Poll: Contractors, what is your hourly rate
I do federal contracting for a parent company and I get billed out around $320-350/hr as far as I can tell. I, of course, only see a fraction of that though =P
acquacow··on Oxygen Candles: Providing Emergency Air
That really depends on the density/surface area of the item. I mean, a standard light blub filament burns at like 3000F, but you don't really feel that.
acquacow··on What are your most used self-hosted applications?
rsync to external USB HDD in my case. I cycle two 8TB externals between my home and safe deposit box for offsite storage. I swap them and then do a fresh rsync of all my jails/etc.
acquacow··on Show HN: A plain-text file format for todos and check lists
That's still too many formatting bits for me.

My weekly todos look something like this:

It uses a simialr format:

YYYYMMDD

- Task to be done

  - Subtask

  * Note about task
/ Task started/half done

x Task completed

ie:

20220328

- finish baselining instances for ami creation

  x server 1

  / server 2

  - server 3

   * Make sure RH image is being used vs AWS provided AMI
/ verify routes exist for all subnets

x snapshot instance X before users are added

-- Dave

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